I've been a weather enthusiast my entire life and have never heard of a "bomb cyclone". Am I alone here, and also is this just more getting the public to find a reason to not trust their pubic advisors when conditions don't meet "bomb criteria" (other than pressure drop) with such a ludicrous label?

Ha! Bomb Cyclone. We get these nor’easters all the time up here. Always have and I’m sure we always will. They’ve never been referred to as ‘bomb cyclones’ before, and nothing has changed...

It’s amazing how crazy the media makes people get when they use terminology like this! I keep telling everyone that this is just another typical strong east coast storm, and nothing more. People are being led to believe that this will be a storm like they’ve never seen before, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.